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Adult braces are everywhere after the pandemic Zoom boom

May 8, 2023
The pandemic increased the desire for straight teeth at any age.
Dr. Peter Greco works on a patient's braces. Baby boomers' efforts to look good as they age and younger workers' hopes to improve their presentation on Zoom are feeding adults' motivation to visit an orthodontist.
Laura Benshoff

Digital startups see opportunity in local journalism

Jul 24, 2019
A handful of news media startups are finding new ways of generating revenue in straitened circumstances.
A tablet displaying a news website is shown on top of print versions of the newspaper in 2016.
Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

With international student enrollment declining in the U.S., intensive English programs feel the pinch

May 16, 2018
For the first time in over a decade, new international student enrollment at US colleges and universities declined last year. Intensive English language programs felt the drop first.
English language students listen to their teacher Susan Squires at the English Center June 16, 2006 in Miami, Florida. 
Joe Raedle / Getty Images

Activists work to put #MeToo on the menu for restaurant workers facing sexual harassment

Apr 2, 2018
Sexual harassment has long been a problem in the restaurant industry.
Juliana Sarita, with Women Organized Against Rape, leads a training to prevent and address sexual harassment against restaurant workers at a South Philadelphia taqueria. 
Laura Benshoff for Marketplace